I am, like most of you, always on the hunt for quality backlinks or sources of targeted traffic.

I've read about paid blog reviews, but never have tried them. Well, I finally went for it plunking $200 bucks down with ReviewMe.com. First, I was surprised by how many sites there were in the make money online/affiliate marketing niche. Not only an abundance of sites, but sites with good PageRanks, low Alexas and quality content.

Reviews cost $40-$7500, with most averaging $40-$60. While there are many blogs in the $100 per post range, I discovered the $40 and $60 paid reviews are just as good.

Site is easy to use and the quality of reviews were good. Not great, but good and I picked up solid backlinks and a little traffic. It's a great way to acquire niche baclinks which are VERY hard to come by and essential to good SERP rankings.  

The downside: I'd order a review from a particular blog and not hear back. I think a percentage of the bloggers are not active with ReviewMe.com and I've wasted a lot of time trying to find bloggers to take my money and review my website. In the last month I've purchased 12 blog reviews and only had TWO pick up my offer... the rest didn't even bother to respond. If they're not interested in my site they're suppossed to reject the review and I didn't get that. They're simply didn't respond. I still have money in my account.

That has been frustrating, but overall I think the site is a great way to pick up high PR niche backlinks and traffic without getting in trouble with the Google God for link scheming. Try it out.

Oh, and if you're a blogger consider signing up and getting paid to blog. I don't think you'll get rich, but it could be easy to snare an extra $100-$1000 bucks a month. 

I'm always hunting for ways to improve search rankings. As you know one of the biggest ways to increase your ranking is to obtain a diversity of HIGH PR backlinks from other websites.

Here is an SEO tactic I posted a few weeks ago on this subject.

http://www.cbengine.com/blog/post.cfm/get-a-higher-search-engine-ranking-with-one-way-link-directories

The formula is pretty simple. If you have a quality website with quality content it really comes down to the more quality backlinks, the higher your site ranks. Obtaining one-way backlinks is hard to do. Most people have to spend a considerable amount of money to buy links or work like hell to get them. I recently came across a product that gives you one more avenue to get these coveted rank vaulting one-way backlinks and do so quickly and for free. Developed by Michelle MacPhearson, she takes you step-by-step in creating software tool bars and submitting them to high PR software directories.

It's a clever, devilishly simple system that just flat-out works. Her videos are easy to follow and it takes about 30 minutes to do. You'll get more backlinks, translating to higher search engine rankings. This is a great way to kick off a new site and grab a good ranking fast, or if you're in a vicious competition for a hot keyphrase, this will give you an extra edge on the competition.

WATCH A FREE VIDEO HERE

Her program is $97 and you're going to have to spend a few more bucks for directory submission software, but in the end, it's far, far cheaper than buying high PR backlinks. If you're serious about getting higher rankings, in my opinion, this is a must do.

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